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The winter without milk : stories
- "Jane Avrich explores the perils of desire in these fifteen stories. Here are characters irresistibly attracted to excess -- material, emotional, spiritual -- who must in the end choose between a life of self-indulgence and a life of self-control. The results are both disastrous and uplifting, and often wickedly funny. Throughout the book are reimagined characters from literature and history -- Oedipus, Lady Macbeth, Scheherezade, for example -- as well as everyday people who want more. A devious London career girl wants romance, so she anonymously courts a married neighbor with poetry. A rich, womanizing bachelor dates Hester Prynne. An androgynous young cat burglar secretly wants only the jacks owned by a local boy. In building the cathedral of Chartres, the workers in that French town trade their cows for oxen and lose thirteen children from the lack of milk, only to be reassured that the children have become "cherubim-- looking down from Heaven.""
- "The winter without milk : stories"